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Call the bluff

—srikanth @ November 20, 2009

Identify the device in the image above. It’s considered the first of its kind. Also identify its inventor.

Cracked by Logik, Jean Valjean, shashank, sidsen, Rogi, udupendra, varuns88 and Ps


IIT JEE anyone?

—devadutta @ November 19, 2009

Identify this super famous pair of physics educators.

D_Hallidayresnick

They have written really famous physics books.

p.s: This one’s for all the BASE junta here :)

Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, shyam, shashank, Subhash, krudebox, shenoyvarun86, p vs np, varuns88, Thejas V R, yaksha, Ps, prasanth, Dibyo, akhi, Mrinalini, udupendra, Aravindhan, madhur, umang, Sanjeet Dash, Sourya, Atul Mathew, AC, Keerthi Kiran M, Rogi, Logik, Sakalakalavallaban, Mo, Ananth, Mihir Rege, sidsen, K.S.Manish, emrohit and Jean Valjean


The _Real_ Mighty Mouse

—devadutta @ November 18, 2009

Guest question from udupendra. Thanks saar! You’ve earned a GQHero trophy!

Identify

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Please to send guest questions to [email protected] to get a shiny trophy. Or you can use [this->boiledbeans();](javascript:(function(){var a=window,b=document,c=encodeURIComponent,d=a.open()

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rogi, byslexia, shrik, foobar, Ps, sidsen, Aditya, varuns88, Ananth, Mrinalini, Logik, Keerthi Kiran M, shashank, xtremevarun, udupendra, Sanjeet Dash, shenoyvarun86 and Rithwik K

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The awesome OpenOffice.org mouse. I am getting one asap!


Oh-say-what-you-see!

—srikanth @ November 17, 2009

What sequence connects:

PS: D5PQ has been moderated and points assigned. If any of you saw a jump in your points, this is why.

Cracked by everyone. Yes, the middle guy isn’t a direct connect, but it was a simpler connection :-)

krudebox, varuns88, shenoyvarun86, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, shrik, Rogi, sidsen, raklodramA, Dibyo, udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, Logik, byslexia, akhi, AC and p vs np


Desi or not?

—devadutta @ November 16, 2009

Who’s the missing ‘desi’?

yonath steitz_structure_photo

Cracked by: udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, varuns88, krudebox, Venkatrangan, Rogi, shrik, sidsen, AC, nishansolo, Prabodh, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, xtremevarun, Dibyo, madhur, Logik, umang, Sanjeet Dash, Ananth, Atul Mathew, Rand Al’Thor, Abinaya, Bharath, santhakumar.s., arun, Vijay, shenoyvarun86 and Ramkumar

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Our Mr.Venkataraman Ramankrishnan!


Bar Gjb Guerr Sbhe

—devadutta @ November 15, 2009

Slightly Modified version of a guest question sent in by Dhruva Batni.

He is the first recipient of the trophy_silver GQHero trophy! Back-end changes for this trophy are in, but it may take while for it to appear on the profile page.

Now for the question
Any short wave radio enthusiast will eventually bump into stations which continuously transmit spooky stuff like this. What are these stations called?

Clip 1 [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/16f157ef3755d49e5ec747fb9554832f.mp3]

Clip 2 [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/0ac05ff3e5b5073a814cecf507e200da.mp3]

Clip 3[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4a9189dd52a1818f2ee8de5c22821bfc.mp3]

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, krudebox, shrik, Rogi, sidsen, Dibyo, varuns88, Mrinalini, Logik, Chinmaya U.Holla, Sanjeet Dash, xtremevarun, arun, jk, Dhruva, udupendra and shenoyvarun86


*beep* *boop* *screech*!

—srikanth @ November 14, 2009

Computer communications king (1) quit college, created company. Co-founder (2). Chronies (1) and (2) created celebrated communication (ah I give up) system that was extremely famous and helped a lot of home computer users. Those of you who accessed the internet pre-ADSL era have probably heard their handiwork.

IDentify (1), (2) and the company they created.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Mrinalini, Rogi, Dibyo, xtremevarun, akhi, udupendra, Ps, sidsen, shrik and shenoyvarun86


Fur

—devadutta @ November 13, 2009

Logo of which software?

pocketfoxasgagasg

This design recently won their logo design contest recently

Cracked by: umang, Mrinalini, Sourya, AC, sidsen, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, sai, varuns88, shrik, akhi, Dibyo, Ananth, Logik, nishansolo, Raghuvansh, Anurag, byslexia, krudebox, ANONYMOUS and shenoyvarun86


...said Jonathan Swift.

—srikanth @ November 12, 2009

Simple one for today. Identify the woman with a penchant for political incorrectness in the pic.

Cracked by Rogi, Mitesh, Logik, umang, varuns88 and sidsen


"Pearls of Wisdom"

—devadutta @ November 11, 2009

The dude with the hat writes about what the old dude sitting in the middle says. It is now an internet sensation.
Who are they? What made them famous?

6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a594bf63970c-800wi

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, Atul Mathew, Logik, SV, Abinaya, Rogi, nishansolo, sidsen, shrik, akhi and umang